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I just got back from End Game and would recommend watching Ant Man and the Wasp for background/context. I crammed watching that, Dr Strange, and the latest Thor earlier in the week (I'd been slacking on my Marvel upkeep) and was glad I did.

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The wife and I watched The Free State of Jones. It was about a deserter from the confederate army that was hiding away with some escaped slaves in the swamps and they finally started fighting against the confederacy and plantation owners. I have been wanting to watch it for awhile.

We really enjoyed it. My wife couldn’t believe some of the atrocities conveyed...apparently she was a tad historically naive. The actors were great. I did find the editing a bit jarring when they jumped to a future time, but even that made more sense towards the end.

I picked up Mortal Engines from the library...it was good enough I want to see sequels, but I don't think it made enough at the box office for that to happen. I also picked up Ride, Aquaman and London Fields, but probably won't get to them until Tue morning.

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I saw Endgame on Thursday night. I really liked it. I saw the points that I was supposed to cry, but didn't really feel the urge. But I did really like it.

Warning... its 3 hours... I did not make it all the way through without a bathroom break... and I did not get my usual $8 soda... I think I made it 1.5 hours in, and ran when it was focusing on a character that I am not really invested in. (but after this movie, the character moved up on my like list).

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I think that we have seen Ant Man and the Wasp more often than any other Marvel movie.

Me because I love to hate HANK PYM!

Megan because she likes almost everybody - except HANK PYM!

It is a small scale Marvel movie - in all meanings of the term. No plot to end/conquer the world. A faction that is driven purely by dislike of one character, and another that is driven by that purest of motives - greed.

I would love to see a prequel movie - that is all about, well, HANK PYM!

The Auld Grump - strangely, he is one of my favorite characters in the MCU....

13 hours ago, Pingo said:

I’ve seen it! EEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeee!

(We had a really demonstrative audience, clapping and cheering at certain points.)

(But yes, bring something to blot tears. Ahhhh, the feels ...)

(Wasn’t expecting to see it for a week but our game got cancelled, so good news pulled out of bad.)

The high point when I was watching the first Avengers movie was when Steve Rogers said 'Hulk? Smash!' The entire audience stood up and cheered.